Reasoning Quiz – April, 2015 – Set 3 – Coding & Decoding

Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here is a set of questions on Coding and Decoding in Reasoning.

Read the following
information carefully to answer these questions:

(i) ‘A $ B’ means
‘A is mother of B’.;

(ii) ‘A # B’
means ‘A is father of B’;

(iii) ‘A @ B’
means ‘A is husband of B’;

(iv) ‘A % B’
means ‘A is daughter of B’;

1. P @ Q $ M # T
indicates what relationship of P with T?

(a) Paternal grandmother

(b) Maternal grandmother

(c) Paternal grandfather

(d) Maternal grandfather

(e) None of these

2. Which of the
following expressions indicates ‘R is the sister of H’?

(a) H $ D @ F # R

(b) R % D @ F $ H

(c) R $ D @ F # H

(d) H % D @ F $ R

(e) None of these

3. If F @ D % K # H,
then how is F related to H?

(a) Brother-in-law

(b) Sister

(c) Sister-in-law

(d) Cannot be determined

(e) None of these

4. Which of the
following expressions indicates ‘H is the brother of N’?

(a) H # R $ D $ N

(b) N % F @ D $ H # R

(c) N % F @ D $ H

(d) N % F @ D % H

(e) None of these

5. If G $ M @ K, how
is K related to G?

(a) Daughter-in-law

(b) Mother-in-law

(c) Daughter

(d) Aunt

(e) None of these

Solutions:

1. (c) P @ Q $ M # T means P is the husband of Q who is the mother
of M who is the father of T i.e., P is the father of T’s father i.e., P is T’s
paternal grandfather.

2. (b) R is the sister of H means R is the daughter of the father
of H i.e., R is the daughter of the husband (say D) of the mother (say F) of H
i.e., R % D @ F $ H.

3. (a) F @ D % K # H means F is the husband of D who is the daughter
of K who is the father of H i.e., F is the husband of D who is the sister of H
i.e., F is H’s brother-in-law.

4. (b) H is the brother of N means N is the daughter of H’s father
and H is a male i.e., N is the daughter of the husband (say F) of the father
(say D) of H and H is the father or husband of some other person (say R) i.e.,
N % F @ D $ H # R or N % F @ D $ H @ R.

5. (a) G $ M @ K means G is the mother of M who is the husband
of K i.e., K is the wife of G’s son i.e., K is G’s daughter-in-law.